KING SALMON, Alaska -- For brown bears in one Alaska national park, bigger really is better. On Tuesday, 409 Beadnose was officially declared the fattest of the fat bears. "What does the she win for ...

Suffering from a dangling tooth on a broken jaw, grizzled Fat Bear Week veteran 32 “Chunk” handily defeated an extremely large 856 to become the 2025 champion. Now in its 11th year, the annual bracket ...

Spring is for skinny bears and March Madness basketball. Fall, however, is for fat bears -- and for Katmai National Park & Preserve's annual Fat Bear Week and its accompanying tournament of crowning a ...

The bears are back on camera at Alaska’s Katmai National Park. As warmer weather thaws off large portions of the wilderness and the bears re-emerge from their winter hibernation, the National Parks ...

In an upset for the ages, Fat Bear Week’s 2025 champion is 32 Chunk, who denied a potential “three-peat” by his longtime rival, 128 Grazer. Fat Bear Week celebrates the triumphs and tribulations of ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — The polls are open for the final round of Fat Bear Week at Katmai National Park, where voters will decide between two hefty contenders: ’32 Chunk’ and ‘Bear Number 856.’ Fat Bear Week ...

The annual Fat Bear Week competition was briefly marred by a cheating scandal in the semifinal, but the results were rectified ahead of Tuesday’s championship battle. The annual conservancy event ...

KING SALMON, Alaska -- A man who was caught on camera wading into a river full of feeding bears to snap a selfie could soon face charges, according to the National Park Service. The man was part of a ...